Polly Toynbee

Standard Name: Toynbee, Polly

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production George Orwell
Female winners have included, for the Book Prize Patricia Hollis (for her life of Jennie Lee ), Miranda Carter , Delia Jarrett-Macauley , and for the Journalism Prize Melanie Phillips , Polly Toynbee , Yasmin Alibhai-Brown , and Vanora Bennett .
The Orwell Prize. http://www.theorwellprize.co.uk/home.aspx.
Literary responses Mary Stott
For her obituary, The Guardian first called her legendary and then printed recollections by seven people who had known her well: editors Peter Preston , Linda Christmas , Suzanne Lowry , and Libby Brooks ...
Leisure and Society Mary Stott
MS studied singing for years, flirted with painting (as she put it), and had an enduring love-affair with gardening.
Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber.
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A perceptive acquaintance said, Mary paints as if she were writing.
Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber.
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She was painted...

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Texts

Preston, Peter et al. “Portrait: Woman of Substance”. The Guardian, p. 6.